25 LIVES LOST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 5

25 LIVES LOST

AMERICAN SNOWSTORM LARGE AREA BLANKETED SHIPPING BADLY AFFECTED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—-United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received December 7, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 6. The worst early December snowstorm for 40 years blanketed the entire east from the Mississippi Valley tp the Atlantic coast—from Montreal to the Delaware breakwater. Twenty-live lives already are reported lost, and the total casualties are expected to be even higher. Shipping suffered heavily. One hundred and forty freighters, manned by 2000 seamen, are locked in the worst ice jam in the history of the Great j Lukes at St. Mary's river. Their, food is low, and there is a serious danger of a famine unless supplies can be rushed quickly. Freezing weather, with the temperature below zero in many parts of the country, has added to the sufferings. There were 12 deaths in New York city, six in Boston, three in Detroit, and two in Chicago. Forty boats arc locked in the ice in the canal at Albany.

! (Received December 7, noon) OTTAWA, December 6. A message from Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, states that due to the extreme cold a fleet of 120 vessels carrying grain destined for the Atlantic seaboard, and freighters loaded with coal for Western Canada and the United States, are frozen in St. Mary's river.

Fifteen million bushels of grain, and many hundred thousand tons of coal, together with ships valued at nearly one billion dollars will, unless relief comes quickly, be unable to move before the spring.